Announcing Friends of the Library
FOL is a new service organization formed in 2007 to support the administration of Rosarito in the management of its Main Library at CEMAC in the center of town and its five satellites in outlying areas. A $5.00 membership in FOL entitles the cardholder to discounts at various cooperating businesses and helps us to make improvements in the existing library facilities. All are invited to join. Volunteers are encouraged to contribute any helpful skills. For info contact Thomas Reeve: vozlatina3@aol.com , 661 612 5034
So far this year we have raised enough money to make significant physical improvements to the facility in Primo Tapia. We will continue with other projects as time, money and materials allow.
Last Spring we started a “Movie Club” that meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at the CEMAC auditorium. Here, for $2.00 you can contribute to the children of our town and enjoy an awarded movie projected on a large screen. We got off to a difficult start this year due to lack of adequate support from CEMAC. We had much trouble with location, video and audio. After the summer these problems were solved and we have been able to enjoy the use of the large auditorium with proper seating, lighting, large screen video and professional audio. Attendees so far enjoyed the movie selections, the physical set up and the light repast and conversation discounted in the CEMAC cafeteria afterward. We are hopeful of having a better attended season in 2008.
Since so many excellent movies are available on TV at home we have attempted to screen a list of highly awarded foreign films that are harder to find at home. We hope you will join us.
THE SCHEDULE 2008
3:P.M.
CEMAC AUDITORIUM
Wed. Jan. 23.
The Bicycle Thief: 1949 Italian film directed by Vittorio DeSica. Postwar poverty, stolen hope for a job, desperation. Once rated the best film ever!!
Wed. Feb. 13
Rashomon: 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Samurai code, rape and murder. This film studies the subjectivity of memory and the self serving nature of selective memory revealed through the disparate accounts offered by the various principals and witnesses to the crime.
Wed. Feb. 27.
Z: 1969 Algerian film directed by Constantin Costa-Gavras. Political struggle in Greece , conspiracy, murder, leftists and rightists. Based on a real life assassination. Hailed as one of the greatest political thrillers. Top international cast including Yves Montand, Louis Trintingnant and Irene Papas.
Wed. Mar. 12.
La Dolce Vita: 1960. The film that launched director Frederico Fellini into everyone’s ken. The theme is to become one that is part of all his subsequent films, i.e. his struggle between the allure of fast living, sophisticated Rome and the simple values of provincial life. Brilliant, sexy, exciting for its day.
Wed. Mar. 26.
Jean de Fleurette: 1986. Yves Montand and Girard Depardieu star in this tale which won four British Academy awards including Best Film. An epic of greed, survival and fate set in the hills of Provence sets the tragic stage for the next film in our series.
Wed. Apr. 9.
Manon of the Spring: 1986. Starring Daniel Auteuil and Yves Montand starts up ten years after the above and explores passions of rage, deceit, guilt and vengeance generated in an earlier life.
For further info contact Herb Weber herb.weber@gmail.com; Or Tom Cormier tom649mx@prodigy.net.mx